Absorption Quote by Patricia Hampl

Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

— Quentin Crisp

It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he…

— Raymond Carver

Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The…

— Evelyn Waugh

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a…

— Marcel Duchamp

Underneath all his writing there is the settled determination to use certain words, to take certain attitudes, to produce a certain atmosphere; what he…

— Randall Jarrell

Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad…

— Meyer Schapiro

[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of…

— Susan Sontag

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

— Victor Hugo

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

— Fay Weldon

To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does…

— Remy de Gourmont

Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been…

— Arlene Croce